Change of itinerary Oriana 619 3 Oct

Just had this!

We've carried out a final nautical review and unfortunately, due to revised

under keel clearance restrictions, we are unable to maintain our call to

Crotone as planned. As a result, we have replaced the call with one to

Corigliano Calabro, located in the province of Consenza, Southern Italy.

If you have booked any shore excursions for Crotone, these will be cancelled

and a full refund issued. A shore excursion programme for Corigliano Calabro

will be available to book via your Cruise Personaliser shortly.

We are sorry that we have had to make this change and hope that it doesn't

cause too much disappointment. We can't wait to welcome you on-board.

I suppose at least the new port is also one I've never been to like Crotone.

Just had this!

We've carried out a final nautical review and unfortunately, due to revised

under keel clearance restrictions, we are unable to maintain our call to

Crotone as planned. As a result, we have replaced the call with one to

Corigliano Calabro, located in the province of Consenza, Southern Italy.

If you have booked any shore excursions for Crotone, these will be cancelled

and a full refund issued. A shore excursion programme for Corigliano Calabro

will be available to book via your Cruise Personaliser shortly.

We are sorry that we have had to make this change and hope that it doesn't

cause too much disappointment. We can't wait to welcome you on-board.

 

I suppose at least the new port is also one I've never been to like Crotone.

I'm sorry you have a cancelled port . At least as consolation the replacement is a new port for you as well but this is happening all too often recently with P&O.

Just had this!

We've carried out a final nautical review and unfortunately, due to revised

under keel clearance restrictions, we are unable to maintain our call to

Crotone as planned. As a result, we have replaced the call with one to

Corigliano Calabro, located in the province of Consenza, Southern Italy.

If you have booked any shore excursions for Crotone, these will be cancelled

and a full refund issued. A shore excursion programme for Corigliano Calabro

will be available to book via your Cruise Personaliser shortly.

We are sorry that we have had to make this change and hope that it doesn't

cause too much disappointment. We can't wait to welcome you on-board.

 

I suppose at least the new port is also one I've never been to like Crotone.

They have made the same change to Oriana X611 going Sunday. Same email received.

I don't mind, never been to either, so happy to go to this new place. Same thing happened on Fred Olsen. Could not get into Gothenburg.

I don't mind, never been to either, so happy to go to this new place. Same thing happened on Fred Olsen. Could not get into Gothenburg.

Gothenburg is no great miss, unless it was for the Christmas Market which I felt was the best I'd ever been to.

Strange but when I looked up where Corigliano Calabro is on the map it is quite a distance inland .....so where is the port??? :confused:

We are contemplating this cruise at the moment :)

Gothenburg was our main reason for booking the cruise, as our friend had family there and we were going to be taken around and wined and dined, overnight in port. Very disappointing. But hey ho, that's cruising.

Strange but when I looked up where Corigliano Calabro is on the map it is quite a distance inland .....so where is the port??? :confused:

 

We are contemplating this cruise at the moment :)

Just back from a cruise with this change they use the shuttle up to the town it takes about 25/30 mins we arrived on the Sunday not much there except the castle up a hill, took about an hour to look round it, found a café for a lemonade and then returned to the port which is a resort with about 3 hotels but again Sunday and we found a couple of places to get a beer and then went for a walk, when we got back 30mins later they had both closed.

We were told the change was about the depth of water which is rubbish it was actually because Crotone is full of refugees who have been landing there

We were told the change was about the depth of water which is rubbish it was actually because Crotone is full of refugees who have been landing there

So is this just pando trying to be politically correct.If they said we are not going to Crotone because it is full of refugees, they would get into trouble.

I never expect to go to all the ports listed for the cruises we go on. I think ever single one has had changes for one reason or another.

Gothenburg is no great miss, unless it was for the Christmas Market which I felt was the best I'd ever been to.

Thanks for the tip. We are visiting gothenburg this Christmas. Do you mean the Christmas market in liseberg? If it is this one did you use the excursion with pando or go independently. Thanks.

Is this a new policy of P and O's to change the Itinerary before sailing? We have been notified that we will be calling at Salerno instead of Naples on our cruise on Arcadia in October and a friend sailing on Britannia this w/end had been informed a few weeks ago that they were not docking at Flam.The reason given in both cases was that too many ships would be in port on the day!! Surely when the Itinerarys are produced well over a year in advance P and O check!

I can quite accept that once on the cruise we may not be able to call at all the ports because of weather etc but I haven t come across the change of Port so far in advance.

We were on Oriana when it made P&O's inaugural stop in Corigliano Calabro last month.

Don't get too excited about it. Our tour driver got lost on a housing estate and then found a dead end. Saw an interesting 8th century manuscript but the uphill and down dale walk in very high temperatures was too much for some passengers. We also went to a licorice factory which wasn't up to much and a wine tasting where the food was a challenge to both the palate and the teeth.

Things may well improve as the locals get used to cruise ships. I think that until recently they only had a very small number annually